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Oh yeah, overlook the spelling errors. If you know what i'm talking about it makes sense.

I talked to a gentleman a few days ago about swirl and he shot me for a loop. To much swirl and velocity stays high in the cyl on intake stroke and when velocity stays high, pressure stays low and cyl filling goes to crap. Not quite figured out this one. I can imagine the mixture making high speed circles around the cylinder and causing a void in the center line of the cylinder but I still have not figured it all out yet.

If you can reach way out there for this you might get my meaning.

Three wheeler tire=10 psi.
Tractor tire=12 to 16.
Car tire 30.

An air bag will lift a car with just a few pounds.

With big cylinders 300 psi exerts a tremendous amount of pressure across a larger surface and something has to move.

Disclaimer, Just Theories...

In a few weeks I will have two new programs. One is called Engine Expert and the other is Dynomation. The first program will layout the requirement the second will tell you runner length, exhaust length, cam timing. I forget all the details but required cfm, minimal port cross sectionl area, ignition advance, rod length and how to set and engine up and move the torque curve where you want it will come out and be withing 5% or less of actual dyno figures.

Just for giggles, i heard about a Moline up past you that a canuck had with two flywheels. They said you could count the revelutions on the fan blade at the other end of the track but it just refused to be gut checked.

It would not have hurt it to normalize it with heat again after you were finished then wrap it in insulation until it cooled off. Maybe not necessary but oh well, its just time.

My dad told me about the Eutectic rods years ago he had to use to weld the big arm on a payloader. Nickle would not hold at all.

Did you use a dialbore guage to check trueness.

Thanks for going out on a limb and doing it the way you wanted anyway. You may have inovated a new process. I have a friend with a 6 cyl at 600 cid. The block is splitting on a brand new build and the engine builder (not me) may be a little hard headed. Compression is blowing into the water jacket like there is nothing stopping it.He wants to just reinstall new sleeves and deck the block and forget the O-rings.

My problem is that I have to keep it running right but don't get to make the decision on how it is built. I am sure it is going to just split down the middle because the sleeves are .125 thick and the distance between the sleeves is maybe .015. I may holler at you in a couple weeks and get the info on your rods or just braze it.

Parts and Peices 600CIDIH... You have probably already seen this motor.